He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Quotations
Music
The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart
-Pablo Casals
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
-Stevie Wonder
I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.
-Jon Skovron
"Struts & Frets"
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
